U.S. to Drop Color-Coded Terror Alerts

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to get rid of the color-coded terrorism alert system. Known officially as the Homeland Security Advisory System, the five-color scheme was introduced by the Bush administration in March 2002.

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Since finally grasping the Zen Ko’an “Who is the Lord who makes the grass green?” (we make a model of reality in our brains – this model, or map, is not the territory, merely a representation of something), the answer: you are the Lord who makes the grass green.

ERGO: the colour alert is artificial, as colours (as we know them), are not objectively real. So the Terror Alert is an illusion, upon an illusion.

As a child this song was strangely disturbing, but isn’t any more:

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.